Chimis on Cherry Street, Cody's Birthday Bash – Tulsa, OK ● April 9, 2016

Every year Cody's and Lance's birthday celebrations are close together and all have a good time as we enjoy the early Spring. Lance and Cody spend much time planning to make the events fun for all. This year, Cody spent much time researching restaurants to come up with the best price point and best atmosphere for his celebration. Cody reserved a room a week ahead of time at Chimis on Cherry Street for 6pm to begin to prepare for the even that was scheduled to begin at 7pm. Invitations were sent to many people through Facebook.

Waiting outside for the room to be ready. Reservations at 6pm picture taken at 8pm

The evening began with all waiting until shortly after 8pm for the room to become available. For reasons unknown another group was using the room despite the reservation. We were then led to the room and proceeded to make the best of the situation. We did the best we could to get the room quickly set up.

Lance helping get the room quickly set up

The “meter” of the evening was clearly thrown off. However, we had good company. Our waitress did a really good job making sure that all were taken care of and she was extremely gracious. I did have to go to the bar and order a beer. I really wanted the Marshals on tap, but the tap was spewing foam and the waitress at the bar could not get the beer full without complete gloss of froth. She was really nice and told her I would have no problem with a bottle of Negro Modelo.

The room was nicely laid out with chips, salsa and water. There was one variety of salsa. It would have been nice to have a hot salsa as well. One a positive note, when I asked for extra lemons the waitress brought a bowl full of really fresh lemons and limes.

Photo-bomb!

Due to the schedule being thrown off, the attendees began to show up at different times. The waitress was nice enough to take orders for people as they arrived. However, as the last group arrived, she was upset when they placed their order at 9:50pm as closing time was 10pm. As a person who has been in the service industry all my life I found this very angering. Customers pay the bills and I personally will stay as long as it takes to make a customer happy. If I have to go home late, that is the price I pay for being employed. After making us wait two hours, the staff now wanted to rush us out.

Making the best of the situation. We had fun despite the circumstances!

Shortly before 10pm a gentleman decided that he needed to start busing the room. Tables were being moved in from the main dining area and the staff was starting to cause major disruptions to the event. I asked him if he could get the waitress so I could take care of my check and he completely ignored me and continued with his disruption. When the waitress finally arrived with the check, I reached for my credit card and she ran off. I yell a couple of times saying that I was ready to pay and was not heard. I finally had to go to the main dining area to hunt her down and give her my credit card.

Lance and Cody

Despite the incompetence of the busing staff and being rushed out of the building after waiting two hours patiently, we made the best of the situation.

The Wet Burrito .... YUM!

The food is fantastic. The cooks are excellent. Lance had the “Wet Burrito” which to me looked really good. I ordered the Sauteed Shrimp which was outstanding. The food is excellent at Chimis.